Yami Tulip-Jin: @_@

Tulip-Jin: Wow, she's still out cold. Think we should wake her?

Chibi Red Eyes Black Dragon: Raaawwwrr rawr? Rawr rawr rawr rrrraawwwrrr! (And tell her she missed recording a Yami Bakura appearance? Nuh-uh, I don't have a death wish!)

Tulip-Jin: Good point...wonder where she hides her snacks?

Okay, here's the next chapter for all of you.



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"WHAT!?!" Yugi nodded dumbly to his friends. "He's gone…" he managed to whisper


before breaking down again. Taya held him close as he sobbed. Meanwhile, Tristan and Joey


were ranting and raving. "I can't believe it! Something just ups and eats him?" "Man, I


don't even want to think about that! We should try to do something!" Ryou - who'd come


back early for some reason (sick relatives or something, I dunno.), finally managed to shut


them up. "We need to know exactly what happened. And I can't hear myself think over the


noise you lot are making!" Turning to Yugi, he asked gently, "Yugi…" Yugi's tear-stained


face met his. "Can you tell me what's been happening?" Yugi breathed deeply, trying to


focus. "First, after we got home, he said he was trying to concentrate. Then he stopped


answering me altogether." Yugi shuddered, holding down another sob. "I even tried to get


in his Soul Room. I know he heard me banging on the door, but he still pretended I wasn't


yelling for over an hour. Then that dream…" Yugi described it. "And when I woke up, the


Puzzle was like this." He was wearing it around his neck as he spoke. Suddenly, Bakura


appeared next to Ryou. "Let me see the Puzzle," he said. Since, although still cocky,


Bakura had completely reformed, Yugi handed it over. Bakura frowned as he examined it.


"This is very odd…" "What? What's odd?" Taya demanded. "He's definitely gone, but he's


not dead." "But I saw…" "You _saw_ him be swallowed. It's very likely the beast absorbed


him whole." "Absorbed?" Ryou asked nervously. Bakura rolled his eyes. "Yes, like…that


thing from your Biology class. The blob thing." "You mean the Amoeba?" "Yeah, that one!


It swallowed him up, and now it's going to use him like a food source." This did not bring


everyone's spirits up. Then Ryou pointed something out. "If it acts like an Amoeba, then


won't he die eventually?" "No. The thing that ate Yami will use his powers, but it will


need a different food source if it wants to keep them." Bakura could see how badly the


others were taking this as he handed back the Puzzle. "Oh cheer up," he said in a fit of


pique. "You're bound to see him again _eventually_." They kept acting like lumps as Bakura


disappeared…










[It's times like these I really wish I _could_ kill myself,] Yami thought miserably.


The Shadow - or Blight as It'd begun calling Itself, had entered the Shadow Realm a while


ago, and seemed to be waiting for something. Leaving Yami alone with his thoughts…which


were about all he had to himself. No body, no privacy, nothing but himself and the stinking


memories that had got him into this mess. Even they weren't truly his anymore. [Oh,


Aibou,] he thought mournfully, [I should have told you from the start, I knew it was too


good to be true, I'm a complete idiot.] {Too bad for you,} came the intruding thought. {If


you had any idea of what I really am, you'd have left me in there and never come back.


Typical.} Yami cursed - now he couldn't even talk to _himself_ without it being public. [Why


don't you go slide back under the rock you came from!] he thought angrily. {Oh, but I find


you so fascinating. You were born a mortal, and then you gave up everything you had to stop


some silly _game_. You locked yourself away for thousands of years, only to end up like


this.} Blight sighed. {It's quite unusual. No other person I've Touched has had a life


like yours. They're all full of their own petty differences…} [Other persons?] {What, did


you really think you were my first? I've been feeding off mortals since before you were


born!} It's laughter followed the remark. {And right now, it's suppertime.} Yami was


startled as they suddenly materialized in the middle of a road…



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*Tulip-Jin and Chibi Red Eyes were snacking on Yami Tulip-Jin's secret snack stash.*

Tulip-Jin: Yum, Oreo Double Stuffed! And Mr. Pibb too...Delishious!

*Far away, maybe a mile or so off*: HEY! WHO'S THE WISE GUY THAT BEANED ME WITH A ROCK!?!?!

Tulip-Jin: Uh-oh, we're in trouble...

Chibi Red Eyes: Raaawwwrrr rawr rrraaaawr! (What do you mean, 'we'!)


Can Tulip-Jin survive the wrath of her dranged Yami?

Will Chibi Red Eyes and Chiwizard finish off the rest of the Oreos?

Do any of you even care?

Tune in next chapter to find out!



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